I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Digital History Program at Clemson University specializing in the history of the United States and the world. I served as the Data and Methods Manager for the project Mapping the Gay Guides between 2022 and 2024. More recently I have worked as the Andrew Mellon Data Fellow for the project Freedom on the Move at Cornell University. My research engages with humanistic GIS, spatial analysis, and text mining methodologies to investigate the production and representations of space, dynamics of place-making, cultural identity, and memorialization at the turn of the twentieth century through a transnational approach. Currently, I also teach U.S. History to 1877 as an Instructor of Record in the Department of History and Geography at Clemson.
More on my background
I hold an MA in Public History and Historic Preservation from Colorado State University and a BA in History from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. My thesis entitled “Invented Pasts, Imagined Futures: World’s Fairs, Cities, and Narratives of Brazilian Nationhood in the Built Environment, 1893-1976” dealt with the maturation of Brazil’s modern nationhood in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries by examining the spatial narratives of world’s fairs as microcosms of modernity and ideologies of national identity.
Still in Brazil, I built up extensive experience in different areas of the historical profession, including museum interpretation, curatorship, archival research, and teaching. Before attending Clemson University, I worked an internship as an archive technician and research assistant with the Public & Environmental History Center in collaboration with the USDA’s National Wildlife Research Center. I was also a GIS intern with the Geospatial Centroid in Fort Collins, Colorado, where I worked in partnership with the Larimer County Department of Natural Resources.
As part of the inaugural cohort of the Digital History Ph.D. Program at Clemson, I've been learning how to incorporate methodologies of digital humanities in my own research, using text mining techniques and GIS tools to ask historical questions about discourse, cultural representations, and the intersections between memory and landscape.
